Indian Institute of Technology, Indore

Discipline of Mechanical Engineering

ME 106, Basic Mechanical Engineering
Tutorial - 1

1. A university campus has 200 classrooms and 400 faculty offices. The classrooms are equipped
with 12 fluorescent tubes, each consuming 110 W, including the electricity used by the ballasts.
The faculty offices, on average, have half as many tubes. The campus is open 240 days a year.
The classrooms and faculty offices are not occupied an average of 4 h a day, but the lights are
kept on. If the unit cost of electricity is Rs. 6/kWh, determine how much the campus will save a
year if the lights in the classrooms and faculty offices are turned off during unoccupied periods.
(Ans: Rs. 3041280)
2. During an expansion process, the pressure of a gas changes from 100 to 700 kPa according to the
relation P = aV+b, where a = 1220 kPa/m3 and b is a constant. If the initial volume of the gas is
0.2 m3, calculate the work done during the process. (Ans: 196 kJ)

3. A hair dryer is basically a duct of constant diameter in which a few

layers of electric resistors are placed. A small fan pulls the air in
and forces it through the resistors where it is heated. If the density
of air is 1.20 kg/m3 at the inlet and 1.05 kg/m3 at the exit,
determine the percent increase in the velocity of air as it flows
through the dryer. (Ans: 14.2%)